Ingeborg von Zadow

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Ingeborg von Zadow (born May 24, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German playwright who mainly writes children's plays. She also works as a literary translator.

Life

Ingeborg von Zadow grew up bilingually (German / English) in Berlin, Bonn, Poughkeepsie / NY , Brussels and Heidelberg , where she graduated from high school in 1989. She studied applied theater studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and at Binghamton University , where she graduated in 1994 with a Master of Arts (MA) for Theater .

Even before studying, she began to work as a writer and assistant director at various theaters. Since her studies she has been working as a freelancer in Berlin, Mannheim and since 1998 in Heidelberg.

Her pieces, which are mainly published by the authors' publishing house , have been shown and translated in over 50 performances since 1993 (English, Polish, Hebrew, Turkish, Russian, Swedish and Estonian). In 1997 the theater festival Triangel Festival Konstanz showed a retrospective. At the 6th German Children's and Youth Theater Meeting in Berlin in 2001, she received the Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin for her previous work. The Goethe-Institut made it possible for her to accept invitations to England, Greece and Australia. She worked as a tutor at the author meetings World Interplay Australia and Interplay Europe .

Publications and performances

Plays

  • Me and You (1992), UA Theater Nordhausen, directed by Peter Fischer, 1993
  • Pompinien (1992), UA Stadttheater Konstanz , directed by Gotthart Kuppel , 1995
    performance on May 3, 2009 at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden to open the Junge Woche as part of the International May Festival , directed by Matthias Faltz
  • Visit to Katt and Fredda (1995), premier at the Young Theater Zurich, directed by Marcelo Diaz, 1997
  • The Forgotten Day (1997), premiere at the Young Theater Zurich, directed by Marcelo Diaz, 1997 (unpublished)
  • Friedas Reise (1997/98), UA Landestheater Tübingen , directed by Jochen Fölster, 1998 (unpublished)
  • Hexenspiel (1999), WP Zwinger 3, Stadttheater Heidelberg , directed by Rüdiger Pape, 2000
  • Alte Schachteln , World premiere stages of the city of Gera , directed by Therese Thomaschke, June 4, 2004
  • Zwischenzeit (2005), contribution to the Festival Zero Hour , Landestheater Tübingen, 2005 (unpublished)
  • Filipa Unterwegs , UA Theater Feuer und Flamme , Braunschweig, directed by Joachim von Burchard, February 10, 2006
  • Über Lang oder Kurz (2009), UA Theater Junge Generation Dresden, directed by Gerald Gluth, December 12, 2010

Translation of plays

Awards

  • 1993/1994: Fulbright scholarship to study in the USA
  • 2001: Annual grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
  • 2001: Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin
  • 2009: Funding as part of “Nah Dran! New pieces for children's theater ”, a cooperation project between the Children's and Youth Theater Center in Germany and the German Literature Fund with funds from the German Federal Cultural Foundation

Incidental music

Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau composed incidental music for viola sola in 1999 for Pompinien .

literature

  • The inside is made public. Interview in: Henning Fangauf, Wolfgang Sting (Hrsg.): Schreibwerkstatt Kindertheater - Contributions to contemporary drama. University of Hildesheim 1996.
  • Christoph Lepschy: The trick is the word pause. In: Stückwerk 2. Workbook Theater der Zeit, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidelberg City Library ( Memento of the original dated May 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ingeborg von Zadow short portrait @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtbuecherei-heidelberg.bib-bw.de
  2. ↑ Staatstheater Wiesbaden Pompinien, press, photos 2009
  3. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Separated for ima ( Memento of May 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), on the premiere of Pompinien , Frankfurter Rundschau, May 5, 2009
  4. ↑ Theater Fire and Flame Filipa Unterwegs
  5. ↑ Tobias Becker: There and weck Christmas fairy tale premiere, Der Spiegel Online , December 12, 2010
  6. ↑ About long or short ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB) Theater Junge Generation, December 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tjg-dresden.de
  7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: “Nah dran! - Authors in the theater "@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kjtz.de
personal data
SURNAME Zadow, Ingeborg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin